Julia Wendall has gone viral online after revealing she thinks she could be Madeleine McCann, the girl from Leicestershire who disappeared in Portugal while on a family holiday 2007.
Her Instagram account, @IAmMadeleineMcCann, gained over one million followers with many convinced by her theory and supposed evidence.
However, the 21-year-old from Poland has since deleted all of her social media accounts after receiving numerous death threats.
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Now, private detective and self-professed medium Dr Fia Johansson, who has assisted police on missing persons cases in the US previously, is investigating Julia's claims and continues to share her findings online.
Julia has submitted three DNA samples, as well as a 23andMe-style genetic test, and is currently awaiting the results to determine if she is Madeline. Here are all her claims that suggest she could be the missing child, as reported by the Daily Star.
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Physical similarities
Julia claims she has the same rare eye condition as Madeleine - a coloboma in her right eye. This is hole in the structure of the eye and can cause the pupil to become misshapen.
In close-up pictures shared by Julia, the coloboma does not appear to be as prominent as the one in photos of Madeleine.
However, the misshapen pupil can be made to "look rounder" through surgery or the use of coloured contact lenses, according to the National Eye Institute.
Julia has has freckles on her leg and cheek which appear to be very similar to those of the missing child.
"I have a mark on the same eye,” she said. "I have a similar shape of face, ears, lips, and gap between my teeth."
No hospital records
To probe Julia's claims further, Dr Johansson travelled to Poland. She found that there were there were no hospital records in Wroclaw - the city she where she supposedly spent her childhood - relating to the first five years of her life.
Speaking to RadarOnline, Dr Johansson said: "Everything between the ages of zero months to five years – everything — is missing.
"And there is no signature by a doctor showing that they had removed any of the records from her file. She just doesn’t exist during that time frame."
This could potentially support Julia's suspicions that her age is incorrect, as Madeleine would now be 19 rather than 21.
Regardless of whether not she is Madeline, Dr Johansson said she has no doubt that Julia was trafficked into Poland as a child.
No childhood memories
Julia claims that there are significant gaps in her memory, especially when it comes to her childhood.
One thing she can vaguely remember is being in a hot place with "white buildings".
She claimed: "I don't remember most of my childhood but my earliest memory is very strong and it’s about holidays in hot places where there was a beach and white or very light coloured buildings with apartments.
"I don’t see my family in this memory."
Links to German paedophile
Julia claims she was assaulted by a German paedophile who looks like a police sketch of a male suspect once considered in Madeleine's disappearance.
She said her grandmother told her "something" about the case of the missing three-year-old, and that she found a photo of the man who abused her in her grandmother's house.
Speaking to RadarOnline, Dr Johansson said Julia allegedly told her school about the incidents of abuse when she was seven. She claims she was then sent on an eight hour car journey with the attacker to another family member’s house.
Dr Johansson and Julia are now in the US where their supposed evidence has been past on to the relevant authorities. The investigator says police "think sex traffickers are likely the ones targeting her" with death threats.
Family in Poland
Julia's family in Poland have released a statement through missing persons organisation Missing Years Ago denying her claims.
Dr Johansson said they refuse to undergo a DNA test and have blocked Julia's phone number.
Julia also claims she one overheard her mum admit to "taking her".
Dr Johansson told The Sun: "What we found after some digging into this is that she overheard her mom saying something along the lines of 'I don't know why we have this girl, she has always been a troublemaker since we took her'.
"Since then she started to question what was going on and whether her parents were her true parents."
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